The platform, called the National Agenda Forum, is a part-recruiting tool where people can also register to help the leader win next year's general election.

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Dev Goswami

New Delhi

July 24, 2018

UPDATED: July 24, 2018 13:30 IST

There has been curiosity about whom Prashant Kishor will align with for the 2019 Lok Sabha election (Reuters file photo)

Indian Political Action Committee (I-Pac), an advocacy group run by political strategist Prashant Kishor, is doing more than just advising political parties on their campaigns for upcoming elections. At a time when there is a lot of curiosity surrounding Kishor's future plans, his advocacy group has launched an online platform to hunt for a leader for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The platform, called the National Agenda Forum, is a part-recruiting tool where people can also register to help the leader win next year's general election.

Who will this leader be? Well, that is for you to decide. People can log on to the National Agenda Forum (NAF), and vote on the issues they believe India must address on priority as well as nominate a leader they believe can address those issues.

The first part of the voting process will see people vote on a '10-point agenda' for the country. Next, people can pick a leader to execute this agenda.

"Anybody can be nominated by the voter to be a leader," I-Pac's media team told IndiaToday.in in a written reply when queried about who the leader potentially could be.

Once the voting is over on August 14 (results will be declared on August 15), I-Pac plans to approach the leader who wins the popularity poll on the NAF website. I-Pac says it will also approach the chosen leader's political party in an attempt to get the NAF's wining 10-point agenda included on the party's official 2019 election manifesto.

VOTING OPEN

The voting on the NAF website is open and will continue till August 14. Results will be announced on August 15 but I-Pac says that it hasn't yet taken a call on whether the voting will be audited by a third party.

The website offers a stock list of 18 agenda points for voters. These points have been inspired from Mahatma Gandhi's 18-point Constructive Programme, a collection of pre-Independence directives aimed at solving issues Gandhi believed India must address, I-Pac says.

Those who come to vote also have the option of submitting agenda points they believe are missing on the website's stock list.

The second step involves nominating/voting for a "leader". The winner of the leader poll, I-Pac says, will be approached to represent the winning 10-point agenda.

Voting page for picking the leader (Photo: Screengrab)

Current choices in the leader poll range from Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi to Akhilesh Yadav and Naveen Patnaik. Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati are also among the choices that figure on the poll.

The choices are not limited. Those taking the poll can also nominate the name of leaders not already present on the list.

The final stage of the voting process sees NAF essentially become a recruiting platform. People can choose to register as part-time associates with I-Pac and "help the chosen Leader to get elected in the upcoming General Elections".